This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.

GALLERY OF IMAGESThe Main Line from New York to PhiladelphiaThe Main Line from Philadelphia to HarrisburgThe Main Line from Harrisburg to PittsburghThe Schuylkill Division, the Northern Central Railway, and the Belvidere-Delaware Division

Inventory of the William H. Rau CollectionBibliography of William H. Rau's Writings—William S. Johnson